Verse 1

Judges 15:1

Literal Standard Version

1 And it comes to pass after some days, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson looks after his wife, with a kid of the goats, and says, “I go in to my wife, to the inner chamber”; and her father has not permitted him to go in,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יְהִ֨י מִ/יָּמִ֜ים בִּ/ימֵ֣י קְצִיר חִטִּ֗ים וַ/יִּפְקֹ֨ד שִׁמְשׁ֤וֹן אֶת אִשְׁתּ/וֹ֙ בִּ/גְדִ֣י עִזִּ֔ים וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר אָבֹ֥אָה אֶל אִשְׁתִּ֖/י הֶ/חָ֑דְרָ/ה וְ/לֹֽא נְתָנ֥/וֹ אָבִ֖י/הָ לָ/בֽוֹא
English Translation
And it happened in the days of the wheat harvest that Samson visited his wife with a young goat, and he said, "I will go to my wife in her chamber," but her father did not allow him to go in.
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Chapter 15 Context
1 And it comes to pass after some days, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson looks after his wife...
2 and her father says, “I certainly said that you surely hated her, and I give her to your companion;... Focus ↗
3 And Samson says of them, “I am more innocent this time than the Philistines, though I am doing evil... Focus ↗
4 And Samson goes and catches three hundred foxes, and takes torches, and turns tail to tail, and puts... Focus ↗
5 and kindles fire in the torches, and sends them out into the standing grain of the Philistines, and... Focus ↗
6 And the Philistines say, “Who has done this?” And they say, “Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, beca... Focus ↗
7 And Samson says to them, “Though you do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterward I ceas... Focus ↗
8 And he strikes them hip and thigh with a great striking, and goes down and dwells in the cleft of th... Focus ↗
9 And the Philistines go up, and encamp in Judah, and are spread out in Lehi, Focus ↗
10 and the men of Judah say, “Why have you come up against us?” And they say, “We have come up to bind... Focus ↗
11 And three thousand men of Judah go down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and say to Samson, “Have y... Focus ↗
12 And they say to him, “We have come down to bind you—to give you into the hand of the Philistines.” A... Focus ↗
13 And they speak to him, saying, “No, but we certainly bind you, and have given you into their hand, a... Focus ↗
14 He has come to Lehi—and the Philistines have shouted at meeting him—and the Spirit of YHWH prospers... Focus ↗
15 and he finds a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and puts forth his hand and takes it, and strikes down one... Focus ↗
16 And Samson says, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heap on heaps—I have struck down one thousand men wi... Focus ↗
17 And it comes to pass, when he finishes speaking, that he casts away the jawbone out of his hand, and... Focus ↗
18 and he thirsts exceedingly, and calls to YHWH, and says, “You have given this great salvation by the... Focus ↗
19 And God (Elohim) cleaves the hollow place which is in Lehi, and waters come out of it, and he drinks... Focus ↗
20 And he judges Israel in the days of the Philistines for twenty years. Focus ↗